Quote by Ibram X. Kendi

“Maybe Mather was consciously attempting to redirect the public’s anger away from elites and toward invisible demons.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“A small piece of bacon flew out of his mouth when he spoke.”

— James Dashner

“Mr.Tasker worshipped pigs, and a great many of his gods, fat and lean, were always in the fields round his house. He killed his…

— T.F. Powys

“Professor Lyall puffed out his cheeks in exasperation. It was like trying to have a conversation with a distracted and very soggy scone. Every…

— Gail Carriger

“Culture and collars had gone together, to him, and he had been deceived into believing that college educations and mastery were the same things.”

— Jack London

“Who rebels with mathematics?”

— Khaled Hosseini

“Tom was not good at math. He’d started to lose his way in middle school, as so many American kids did. It had happened…

— Amanda Ripley

“Behold the power of bacon,”

— Scott Nicholson

“So he went on stringing together these and other absurdities, all in the style of those his books had taught him, imitating their language…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“College was constantly creating these predicaments: in the morning, you’re an interested, earnest student trying to understand John Rawls’s veil of ignorance, in the…

— Jeffrey Gettleman

“He was a strange lad—with a peculiar, dreamy air about him that made some think he was dim-witted. But he wasn’t stupid—he just paid…

— Pat Murphy

“This line of thinking became Mather’s everlasting justification of social hierarchy: the ambitious lowly resembled Satan; his kind of elites resembled God.”

— Ibram X. Kendi